Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg (born in 1939) is a Italian Historien, considered one of most important of its generation and as eminent representing Microstoria. He is the son of the Italian novelist Natalia Ginzburg (born Levi) and of the journalist activist Leone Ginzburg.

Biography

He was professor of modern history at the university of Bologna, before expatrier towards the the University of California (the United States). He is particularly interested in the Sorcellerie and his repression at the end of the Moyen-âge. He wrote many articles, in various reviews, in particular in Past and Present or Quaderni Storici .

Work

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The writings of Ginzburg throughout its career go in favor of historical reality in the aiming of testimony. Its works abound in events told under several angles of attack in order to offer a kind of history microscopic and with more close to the truth to the facts.

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